RetailingToday.com — Walmart Breaks

About a week after announcing it would join First Lady Obama and other retailers in bringing more choices to so-called “food deserts”, Walmart announced its official presence in Chicago today with the news that it has begun work on a new supercenter in Chatham.

According to the company, the store will give more options to residents of Chicago’s South Side neighborhood while at the same time creating approximately 400 jobs. The store, one of nine new locations now planned in the city, is scheduled to open in spring of 2012.